Expertise

Human biology; biocultural medical and psychological anthropology; neuroanthropology; child development; biolinguistic synthesis. Interactions among the social and cultural architecture of everyday life, cognitive processes, and physiology in human development and differential well-being across the life course.

Communities
Anthropology
Degrees
PhD, Emory University, Anthropology, 2006
BS, State University of New York at Binghamton, Biochemistry and Anthropology, 1998
Keywords
psychological anthropology human biology biocultural cross-cultural southeastern united states cultural models ecocultural social ecology sleep health healthy aging nicaragua tanzania medical anthropology child care psychobiology psychophysiology early childhood education stress child or maternal health public health aging human development child development
Honors

Marilyn Williams Elmore and John Durr Elmore Professor, University of Alabama, 2019

Award for Outstanding Faculty/Staff-Initiated Engagement Effort, Council on Community Based Partnerships, University of Alabama, 2015

University of Alabama President’s Faculty Research Award, University of Alabama, 2015

Distinguished Teaching Fellow, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Alabama, 2011

Associations
Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences
Human Biology Association
American Anthropological Association
Society for Medical Anthropology
Society for Psychological Anthropology
American Association of Biological Anthropologists